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Stadium floodlight control, gate access and broadcast feed split off one pitch-side network

Four floodlight masts each carried a dimming cabinet, and the club also needed gate readers, pitch-side cameras and a broadcast feed. One managed network now carries the presets, the access control and the match-day video, with the broadcast feed on its own VLAN and uplink.

Stadium floodlight control, gate access and broadcast feed split off one pitch-side network

The need

The ground runs four masts with 24 floodlights, a scoreboard, gate readers at two entrances and two pitch-side cameras for the video referee. Presets change between training, match and maintenance modes, and the broadcast crew arrives on match day wanting a clean feed with no other traffic on it. The old copper from the control room could not reach the masts, and adding a second network for the gates was not on the table.

What was specified

ModelQtyRole in the project
RS1024K-P16-2S-M4Mast-base cabinet, PoE for the camera and gate reader, fibre back to the control room
RIS1000-16G-2F2Control-room ring, sixteen gigabit ports, two fibre ports to the masts
RS1025K-8LG-2S-10G2Broadcast and streaming uplink, 10G SFP to the outside contribution link

Why that split

The mast cabinet is where the distance problem is, so PoE and the fibre port go there, and the cameras and readers share it instead of getting a second run. The control room keeps a ring so a single fibre does not stop a match day, and the 10G uplink is kept apart because a broadcast feed competes with nothing else for bandwidth. Presets, access control and video sit on separate VLANs, so a camera reboot never touches the floodlights.

Result

  • Preset changes are pushed from the control room before each session.
  • Gate readers and pitch-side cameras share the mast cabinet without extra cabling.
  • The broadcast feed has a dedicated VLAN and uplink on match day.

Quantities in the table are the planned build, not a bill of materials for a specific tender.

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